I'm Here

Chapter 24- Liam

I just admitted to having feelings for my best friend to my best friend.

I mentally facepalmed myself, can I get any dumber?

Justin, Chris and I were in the halls waiting for our class to start when we saw Emily walking our way, "Okay guys act natural."

Chris started laughing really loudly making people look over at us. I rolled my eyes at him.

"Hey Justin and Chris." she greeted them with a smile, when she saw me she nodded her head "Hi Liam." she avoided eye contact

even if there is some awkward tension between us hearing her say my name and seeing her smile was enough to make butterflies erupt in my stomach. I smelled her perfume in the air as she walked by,

I watched as she walked down the hall greeting people she knew.

"No dude. No....I know what you're thinking, digest those butterflies." Justin told me grabbing my shoulders and facing me away from Emily's direction.

Chris slapped my shoulder, patting it a few times "You got it bad man."

"I know." I sighed leaning my head against the locker.

"Who would've thought, you Liam Collins would fall in love with Emily. Someone you swore you hated cause she 'betrayed you'." Justin laughed a little

"I am not in love. At least I don't think I am. No I'm not, I can't be. I don't have time to think about this I have to go."

I walked away from them before they can say anything and headed to my class early, which is the class I had with Sophia.

"So how'd it go with Emily at lunch?" Sophia asked right as I sat down

Curse her for being on time for classes. I was hoping to avoid talking about this.

"Not good. She knows. And now she can barely look at me." I groaned

"Really? Oh I'm so sorry Liam, but you should've expected this." she told me sincerely

I nodded my head agreeing "Yeah but for right now I wanna get school over and go home. So I don't feel like talking about it." I muttered the last part but she heard it telling me how she understands.

This feeling I hate it and I want it to go away so everything can go back to how it was, but at the same time I want it to stay

I love the feeling of wanting her because I can't have her. I love the feeling of when she's near me my heart roars and I feel alive

I love her flaws and her quirks.

I love her, I hate that I love her. I hate that every night before I go to sleep I think of her.

But I still love Emily and I want to be near her and hear her voice. So if I have to pretend to lose all feelings for her so be it. I know it's gonna be hard but I don't care.

"Good afternoon class I'm gonna be your subsitute teacher today, and I hope we can get along really well." He smiled but I knew that smile was gonna leave his face soon, because we have two students in particular that just loves subs and those students are Justin and Chris.

 Let me just tell having both of them in one class at the same time is a pain in the ass. Teachers begged the principal to switch one out of the class when the other is in there.

By the time the class was over our sub Mr. Barnes was slumped over in the chair with a scowl on his face as he looked around at the amount of paper and pencils and whatnot on the ground, he was pulling at his hair and he looked like he wanted to give up teaching for the rest of his life.

Meanwhile Justin and Chris left the classroom with smug smiles on there faces and did this nod as if they completed a mission. Some subsitutes and teachers call them 'Devil Duo'. it's pretty funny honestly.

I went to the bathroom to pee then talked to Justin and Chris before going to my next period. One more and then I'm finished with school for the day. Woohoo.

After that period me, Justin and Chris were laughing when Emily came marching over, my heart quickened it's pace for a few seconds.

"Why in the world do you both have to be such butt monkeys?" Emily asked with a frustrated expression "Hi Liam." she said with a small smile before looking back at the two.

"What ever do you mean Emily?"

"Yeah we don't have the slightest clue as to what your talking about." sometimes I think those two are twins instead of cousins.

"You know what I'm talking about. Because of you two nitwits our subsitute Mr. Barnes was in a bad mood and made my class pick up your fudging mess." she fumed but all I could think was how adorable she looked

her cheeks were red and she had this pout on her face. "We're sorry pumpkin spice." they said at the same time and grinned when she widened her eyes and her lips turned into a frown

"Don't call me that." "We have to go." Justin suddenly said and looked at Chris "Why do we need to- Oh! right we do...we have that thing."

then they ran off leaving me and Emily just standing there.

I cleared my throat there was so much silence between us, the only sound was the chatter of other people.

"Look Emily I'm sorry I said what I said, I didn't actually mean it. Justin and Chris told me to say that to you as revenge for you calling me gay. It was just a prank." I can't believe that lie ran so smoothly out my mouth, I thought for sure I would stutter or something.

"Really? Because you seemed pretty serious and it looked like you were about to die." she lightly joked I put on the best grin I can "Well you fell for it, I guess I can be an actor after all."

"I'm really happy we can talk again Liam, but I have to go meet Luke before our last class." she said before pulling me into a hug, I wrapped my arms around her before letting go making sure not to linger.

 I tried not showing any emotion either as she said Lukes name. "Okay see you last period." I waved and once she walked away I released the breath I had been holding. This is gonna be harder than I thought.

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At first I was all like 'Justin and Chris are such a cute bromance' but then I was like 'They act too much alike I'm gonna make then related'

*secretly hopes no one shipped Justin and Chris*

I thought I was gonna make a short story but this story is probably gonna be longer than I wanted it to be.

Ummm I love you all.

Peace love and tartar sauce :)

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